3-078-323 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir E. Burne-Jones's studio, 1895. 'Although Sir E. Burne-Jones has devoted much time to rendering beautiful churches, houses, and public buildings, he has never been possessed of that desire to transform his studio into a luxurious lounge...At The Grange, in Hammersmith, an old-fashioned house in a large garden,...everything in the studios is arranged with an eye to business. Attached to the house is the smaller or house studio, in which the painter works generally in the evening, especially when friends drop in or his family is gathered round him. As a rule, however, his larger pictures are painted in the garden studio, which, as the accompanying Illustration shows, is a large, comfortable, but by no means ornate room. Round the workshop - for such it really is - are to be seen pictures in every stage of production - the first sketch, the worked-out scheme, the worrying afterthought. The story of the "Morte d'Arthur" and the legends which have crystallised round it seem just now to be foremost in Sir E. Burne-Jones's thoughts, but he has not yet finished with his myth of Perseus, or wholly given up painting Scriptural subjects, as is shown by the grand design for "The Nativity," now nearly completed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.